Third Discussion on Chapters 7 and 8:

  • Equality goes to the meeting to present the lightbulb to the World Council of Scholars.

  • Equality thought that the lightbulb was a good idea, but the Scholars said it needed to be destroyed.

  • The Scholars said that they cannot alter the Plans again so soon, like they did from torches to candles.

  • Equality broke the window, jumped out, and wandered into the forest.

  • He keeps wandering tin the forest, tired, hungry, and thirsty.

  • He's writing on paper he hid in his tunic, but says he cannot speak for he doesn't understand now.



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Second Discussion on Chapters 5 and 6:
  • Equality discovers how to make a lightbulb work and wants to introduce it to the world at the World Council of Scholars meeting
  • Even though he knows it is wrong, he wants to see his own reflection
  • Loses track of time and returns home late to the Home of Street Sweeper and is ordered to the Palace of Corrective Detention until he tells them where he was.
  • Equality is stripped and beaten, loses consciousness and wakes up in a tunnel that he later on escapes
  • Returns back to his secret "light" tunnel, waiting for the meeting the next day


First Discussion on Chapters 1 and 2:

  • Communist and strict society

  • Everything is "we" there is no "I"
  • Equality 7-2521 is a street sweeper and he and his friend International have found a secret underground tunnel which Equality uses as a place to write and learn things alone.
  • Equality was very intelligent growing up and dreamed of becoming a scholar but was chosen to be a street sweeper.
  • all professions are assigned and no one can choose their future
  • Equality falls in love with Liberty 5-3000 (The Golden One)
  • Speaking the Unspeakable word is the only crime punishable by death.


Ayn Rand Bio:

  • She was born a Russian
  • Moved to America when she was 21
  • In russia the peasants had little to no rights
  • Ruled by Tsar and his army
  • 1917 the Russian Revolution Happened
  • Communisism takes over and pulls Russia out of WWI
  • OBJECTIVISM --> every man for himself & you have to work for your happiness, which is the ultimate goal. A limited and selfish society where no God is worshipped or believed in.